Another example of authentic community stewardship: Shawnee Rotary and the City of Shawnee (Kansas) are sponsoring the rain-or-shine event, which provides safety training for children who plan to ride their bikes to school. Posted via The De Soto Explore Blog @ http://bit.ly/pMgikt

Our global community needs to become more effective in adapting author Richard Louv's "The Nature Principle" about human restoration and the end of Nature Deficit Disorder (ISBN 978-1-56512-581-0) ... Check out this YouTube Magic Movie: http://youtu.be/w_cB3GmHH1k

As both a VFW Post 6654 Trustee & Watershed Marshal since 2008, I've been advocating that our USD 232 communities need to help preserve a shared sense of imagination and place! Since mid-2004, I've learned how persistent Monticello Community Historical Society has been as stewards of our Monticello Ghost Township's vanishing "social capital" ...

This local VFW Post with its Ladies & Men's Auxiliary volunteers reinvested their social capital (goodwill) in highly effective community stewardship and outreach programs! Learn more via Facebook @ http://on.fb.me/lyEnds

As a De Soto Explorer blogger, I also serve as VFW Post 6654 Watershed Marshal.I was surprised this Shawnee-Dispatch/USD232 story wasn't also published here ...

>>Seventh-grade students at Mill Creek Middle School play a game of basketball according to the rules written by James Naismith in the 1890s. The activity was part of a two-day lesson created by the school's learning coach, Leah Vomhof, on analyzing primary sources. <<@ http://minnesotafuturist.pbworks.com/...

While I was Monticello Township's "Clear Creek Watershed" marshal (2004-06), Darrell was my BIOgeography mentor & tutor when I GPSurveyed locations of all "California Road" crossing signs placed by the Kansas City Area Historical Trails Association (KCAHTA).